View of character "Selection" counter is obscuredbrowsing

At the very bottom/right of a window, one can see various bits of info:

Length
Lines
Ln
Col
Sel
and a format indicator

The sel field, however, is truncated. It displays only 2 characters, so that if a selected string is 100 or more characters, only the first two digits of the sel value are seen. For example, if the string is 234 character long, the sel indicator will show “23.” The “4” is hidden.